Lok Capital
Vignesh Ramanujam started their career in finance and investment banking before transitioning into entrepreneurship. Vignesh has a strong background in developing trading models and advising clients on investment strategies. Vignesh has founded and led multiple startups, focusing on new-economy investing and innovative market solutions. Vignesh is currently the Co-Founder & CEO of Stealth and previously worked as a Partner at Lok Capital. Vignesh is also a speaker at TEDxDharamshala and holds degrees in Finance, Politics & Economics, and Climate.
Lok Capital
Lok Capital is one of the pioneering and leading "base of pyramid" focused impact investing venture capital funds in India. Lok funds high potential entrepreneurs developing market oriented solutions to solve socially or economically challenging problems for lower income/BoP segments. Founded in 2006 by Dr. Rajiv Lall (currently the Executive Chairman of IDFC) and Donald Peck (previously Head of South Asia for Actis), Lok Capital has a corpus of approximately USD 90 million across two funds. The Fund's investors are international development institutions, including CDC Group PLC (UK), IFC, KfW (Germany), FMO (Netherlands), Proparco (France) and ACCION Investments. The firm has so far invested in around 16 companies including Ujjivan Financial Services, Vistaar Financial Services, RuralShores, Drishti Eye Care, Everest Edusys and Hippocampus Learning Centres.